Obrazky z hor / Pics from mountains II

The second set. As you can see the weather was great (next time I will take some sun lotion...). Pure pleasure.
Druha sada. Pocasi bylo vytecne (pro priste je nutne si vzit vice opalovaciho kremu). Cista radost.

Obrazky z hor / Pics from mountains

Just a little appetizer for the other pictures from my holiday.

Drobny predkrmek pred dalsimi obrazky z hor.

Nove odkazy / New links

I added several new links (see the Reflections section). One of them is published by a German antarctic expedition. Enjoy :-).

Pridal jsem do sekce Reflections nekolik novych odkazu. Jeden z nich je psan nemeckou polarni expedici.

Poklady YouTube aneb zivotni role

Brouzdal jsem trosku YouTube a hle, co jsem nalezl:

• zivotni roli pana Frantiska Sahuly
• a, nejsem si 100% jist, velmi zajimavou roli Adely Gondikove.

Tak at vas to pobavi tak, jako to krasne pobavilo v sobotnim poledni me.

Vitezna fotka / Winning picture

There was a photo competition at work - the topic was something like "humourous side of working in D". And here is the winning picture (by me :-)). One could conclude that the life at D. is not that funny if this is supposed to be the funniest picture...
Awaiting the prize...

Meli jsme v praci fotografickou soutez s tematem neco jako "Vesele momenty z D.". A tohle je vitezny obrazek (autorem je moje malickost). Jeden by rekl, ze prace v D. neni tak vesela, kdyz vyhraje takovy obrazek...
Tak ted cekam na vyhru.

Dalsi faze / The next phase

Friday evening. Almost 8 pm. And I was still at work - not working but just having one e-learning course (Fundamental of critical thinking...well...). Nevermind.
Allmost all people are gone. Two of my colleagues were still sitting there. Both of them are round 30, both married one of them has a little son. And suddenly he says: "My wife gave me a call already one hour ago and she just told that this is really not the way she likes." (Looks like she still hasn't got used to the time requirements of her husband's job - a cynical joke). The other one just replies: "Hm . I am facing quite an opposite problem. I cannot reach my wife with phone." And the first one says: "This is the next phase."

Patek. Skoro osm vecer. Stale sedim v praci - nepracuju, ale delam jeden e-learningovy kurz (Zaklady kritickeho mysleni...no...).
Skoro vsichni uz jsou pryc. Dva mi kolegove jsou jeste mezi par pozustalymi. Oboum je kolem triceti, oba zenati, jeden ma maleho syna. Najednou rika: "Uz pred hodinou mi volala zena, ze takhle teda fakt ne." (Zrejme si stale jeste nezvykla na zivotni rytmus sveho muze - cynicky vtipek). Druhy na to: "To ja mam jiny problem. Ja se uz delsi dobu nemuzu dovolat sve zene." Prvni: "To je uz dalsi faze."

Pardubice a la Hitchcock

Picture from the city in which I was born from this weekend.
Obrazek z minuleho vikendu v Pardubicich.

Par klipu / Some music movies

The last couple of weeks was really busy so even thinking of some meaningfull contributions (which would "count") was quite difficult. Nevertheless, regardless of how much time I spent at work or so I enjoyed several music movies on YouTube. Here they are:

• Looking Out My Backdoor by Creedence Clearwater Revival - wonderful music and a movie full of good mood. Which is quite opposite to what happened later in the band. You can read the story in the wikipedia article which is something like a story about a hard life with a genius. BTW: for me the movie is a good reminder of the fact that you should always think first before you choose your haircut... :-). (Read the article thoroughly - you may find interesting info about Saul Zaentz - e.g. producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
• You might have noticed that there are some lyrics in the bottom in the links. One of them is Warriors of the World by Manowar. Quite a militaristic song. The official music movie is not interesting whereas the following two are. The first one - sometimes it is really difficult to say whether they meant it seriously or it was just a parody (If you really cannot sustain it just go to 1:20. It is really worth it :-)). I am still not sure. And the second movie...well, just enjoy :-).
• And finally a third movie just in order to let you calm a little bit down. It's sort of music movie for Blue - one of the incredible trilogy Three colours by Krszysztof Kieslowski and a music composer Zbigniew Preisner.

Posledni dva tydny byly dosti hekticke, takze i jen pouhe premysleni o smysluplnych prispevcich se prilis nedostavovalo. At tak ci onak, podarilo se mi aspon shlednout par videoklipu na YouTube, o ktere bych se rad podelil:

• Looking Out My Backdoor od Creedence Clearwater Revival - krasna hudba a klip plny dobre nalady. Coz je v dosti velkem protikladu k tomu, jak skupina skoncila - muzete si o tom precist v clanku na Wikipedii. Ve zkratce: jde o to, ze s geniem se obcas zije hodne spatne. Krom toho je klip dukazem toho, ze pred tim, nez si clovek vybere uces, mel by si to radne rozmyslet. A propos: pokud budete cist povidani o CCR na Wikipedii, dozvite se neco i o Saulovi Zaentzovi (mj. producent Preletu nad kukaccim hnizdem).
• Asi jste si vsimli, ze dole mezi odkazy jsou odkazy na texty nekterych pisni. Jednou z nich je Warriors of the World od Manowar. Takova pekna militaristicka pisen. Oficialni klip nic moc. Ale tyhle dva stoji za to. U prvniho clovek dosti vaha, jestli to bylo mysleno vazne, nebo slo o parodii. Buh sud (pokud byste to fakt nemohli vydrzet, mrknete se aspon na 1:20, tam to skutecne stoji za to :-). A ten druhy...no, kouknete se.
• A na zaver treti klip, trochu na uklidneni. Je to jakoby klip k Modre - jedne ze tri casti fantasticke Kieslowskeho trilogie Tri barvy. Hudba od Zbigniewa Preisnera.

Intelektualne zdatny vandal

Foceno tento vikend v Pardubicich. Jo, v Hradci neco takoveho jiste nemaji :-) .
P.S. Je to vyskrabano, ne tupe nastrikano sprejem, to je prakticky sgrafiti (ci jak se to pise).

Odkud je PFko? / Where is PF from?

The PF picture is surprisingly not from Finland - even though it looks like that (as several of you noted and as I realized afterwards). It is from the Czech Republic from the wonderful area of Jeseniky Mountains and the area of Rejviz in particular. It is just at the peaty lake.

Zdroj/Source

Fotka na PFku neni z Finska - i kdyz tak vypada, na coz jsem byl par lidmi upozornen a sam jsem si i posleze uvedomil. Obrazek je z Jeseniku, od Rejvizu, hned od raselinneho jezirka.

PF 2007

All the best!

Vše nejlepší!

Large numbers of reindeer moving around on roads in Lapland

I guess that most of you who know me know my obsession with Finland. Therefore I read the online English edition of Helsingin Sanomat (leading Finnish newspaper) from time to time. I guess not many of you are interested in that - but I still feel somehow "obliged" to inform you that there are big problems with reindeer moving around on roads :-). Just a little quote which for a Central European guy sounds really interesting: "Salt attracts reindeer to the road areas, even though the Road Administration has tried to minimize the use of salt in certain areas. So far, solutions involving less tasty salt have proved to be too expensive."


Ma posedlost Finskem je, myslim, pomerne znama. Takze mi to neda a obcas si ctu internetovou verzi anglickeho vydani Helsingin Sanomat, coz je jeden z hlavnich finskych deniku. Chapu, ze vas to nemusi zajimat tak, jako me, nicmene mi to neda a proste vas musim informovat o tom, ze predevsim v provinciich Oulu a Laponsko jsou problemy se soby, kteri se zacinaji moc toulat po silnicich. Pritazlivost clanku v HS tkvi dost mozna v tom, ze se tam stredoevropsky ctenar setka mnohdy s necim, ceho se mu doma vskutku nedostane: "Sul pritahuje soby k silnicim, i kdyz se sprava silnic snazi jeji pouzivani v nekterych oblastech omezit. Reseni zalozene na mene chutne soli se prozatim ukazalo jako prilis nakladne."